I am thinking about building a HTPC to hook up to my Pioneer 4360 plasma but have some questions for those of you who are hooked up to displays of this type.
1) How difficult is it to make adjustments with PDVD to ensure the video quality is equal to that of standalone BD and HD DVD players? Before I would build it, I would want to know that the quality is going to be the same as the stand alone units I have.
2) Second, I was planning on getting the ATI Radeon 2600xt as a graphics card. Does anyone know if this card is compatible with a pioneer plasma display. And if not, what graphics card would you recommend?
3) I was planning on going with either the intel 6700 or 6750 cpu. Is there any real advantage to going with quad core over the models above? I do no gaming by the way.
4) What type of power supply would you recommend? In addition to the Cpu and graphics card mentioned, I would be hooking up at least 4 500 internal hard drives, as well as a blu ray drive. And I would be running vista home premium.
Any other info. that you want to provide would be appreciated. Thanks.
1) How difficult is it to make adjustments with PDVD to ensure the video quality is equal to that of standalone BD and HD DVD players? Before I would build it, I would want to know that the quality is going to be the same as the stand alone units I have.
2) Second, I was planning on getting the ATI Radeon 2600xt as a graphics card. Does anyone know if this card is compatible with a pioneer plasma display. And if not, what graphics card would you recommend?
3) I was planning on going with either the intel 6700 or 6750 cpu. Is there any real advantage to going with quad core over the models above? I do no gaming by the way.
4) What type of power supply would you recommend? In addition to the Cpu and graphics card mentioned, I would be hooking up at least 4 500 internal hard drives, as well as a blu ray drive. And I would be running vista home premium.
Any other info. that you want to provide would be appreciated. Thanks.